Business breakfast at the height of the 85th floor Moscow-City strengthened the alliance of EURO SHOES and CPM exhibitions
Last Monday, August 14, in a very atmospheric Ruski restaurant, located on the 85th floor of the OKO tower in Moscow City, a business breakfast of partner exhibition projects CPM, Euro Shoes and Textile salon was held. The organizers invited partners, journalists, bloggers and the expert community to the event, the official occasion for which was the 40th anniversary exhibition CPM - Collection Première Moscow. For the 4th season, the international business platform CPM will be held in alliance with the main shoe exhibition in Russia and the CIS - Euro Shoes.
The Euro Shoes @ CPM exhibition will be held from August 29 to September 1 in Moscow at the Expocentre Fairgrounds. This season, the Textile salon project joined the alliance of the two leading fashion exhibitions of the country, which will be held on the same dates in the Afimall City shopping center. The heads of all three business platforms shared the latest news with the audience and agreed in a high assessment of the synergy of the largest projects in their segments of the fashion market.
The General Director of the National Shoe Union delivered a welcoming speech (NOBS) Yan Belyaev. “The main thesis of the National Shoe Union of Russia is unification, consolidation, cooperation, alliance. Therefore, the alliance of three exhibition projects is a very necessary and important event for the fashion industry today,” Yan Belyaev told the audience.
On behalf of the CPM team, General Director Alexander Shainikov and CPM Project Director Nikolai Yartsev spoke. Among the important news, CPM organizers especially noted a significant increase in exhibitors from Turkey, Italy, China and some other countries, as well as the fact that the number of brands that present new collections to buyers has already exceeded 800, demonstrating an increase of more than 30% by the February purchasing session. The business forum RFRF - Russian Fashion Retail Forum will also develop in the coming season: according to the curators, its schedule includes numerous public talks, lectures, seminars and lectures.
Another significant event of the season will be the return of the CPM fashion stage catwalk show program: its schedule will include collective presentations Made in Russia and Made in Turkiye, a CPM designerpool special project, individual shows of fashion brands from different countries, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the exhibition.
About the format, exhibitors - permanent and new companies and brands, business events of the exhibition Euro Shoes Director Anastasia Kornilyeva told the guests of the business breakfast: “The Euro Shoes exhibition is constantly developing and expanding its geography, sensitively responding to current market challenges and the current geopolitical and economic situation. In August 2023, for the first time, we will have a large delegation of participants from Southeast Asia. At the same time, our regular European exhibitors, despite the difficulties in logistics and a number of other problems, steadily continue to participate in the exhibition. Traditionally, Turkish shoe factories and companies are widely represented at Euro Shoes.”
During the August session of Euro Shoes, the exhibition organizers announce a new project - a b2b exhibition "Open warehouse EURO SHOES", which will become a business platform for manufacturers, importers and sellers of shoes, bags and accessories from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, who are interested in selling / buying, selling leftovers / sorting and re-ordering current collections in the middle of the season. The EURO SHOES Open Warehouse exhibition will be held from October 17 to October 19, 2023 in the new modern multifunctional exhibition space in Moscow - Event Hall Danilovsky.
At the same time, Expocentre will restart the Selections by open sklad [S'] exhibition project, the first b2b outlet in Russia for sorting fashion retail in the middle of the season, where about 100 brands from Russia, Turkey, China and others will be presented. countries.
Natalia Timashova, Editor-in-Chief of the leading industry publication - Shoes Report magazine, shared with colleagues and experts newsworthy news and announcements of premieres from the spring-summer 2024 shoe collections, which will be presented at the Euro Shoes exhibition.
Vadim Efremenkov, head of the exposition of the project, told the guests about the exhibitors and the business program of the Textile salon exhibition.
The event was attended by Alexey Lyutinsky (Expocentre Fairgrounds), Olga Zorikhina (Italo-Russian Chamber of Commerce), Victoria Krivoruchko (RAFI Association), Jurate Gurauskaite (U Magazine), as well as the teams of EuroShoes @CPM, Textile Salon, Russian-German Chamber of Commerce , Fashion Consulting Group, Retail.ru, Academy of Fashion Marketing, TG-channel "Fashion pumping", companies "Third Feeling", Laimalux Group, Natura Siberica, "Avito" and many others.
After the official part, the guests had an opportunity to communicate in an informal setting, exchange views and discuss the latest developments in the Russian fashion industry.
Only ten days left before the main international exhibition of shoes and accessories in Russia Euro Shoes premiere collection. The event will be held at the Expocentre Fairgrounds, Pavilion No. 1 from August 29 to September 1.
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